Re: GNOME 2.16.2 Showstopper Review



Le jeudi 09 novembre 2006, à 23:45, Andre Klapper a écrit :
> in a perfect world, we would have unlimited ressources (oil, money,
> developers, bugtriagers), we would not need marketing (because everybody
> just knows that GNOME is the best desktop in the world), there wouldn't
> be bugs, and even if, every developer would have enough time to fix
> those bugs immediately, and to read bugzilla mail on a daily basis.
> 
> this isn't a perfect world - time to reanimate showstopper reviews. :-)
> 
> developers, please do take a look at this list.
> feel free to not only take a look at your product - perhaps you also
> have fresh ideas where other developers are stuck.
> i fully understand that one cannot always keep track of everything. we
> want to help you a bit, any feedback is welcome.

Thanks for this list! That's definitely useful.

Did the maintainers of the various modules listed in there looked at the
bugs? :-) 2.16.2 is going to be released in a few days...

Here are some comments:

> ================================================
> CONTROL-CENTER
> ================================================
[snip] 
> ================================================
> DESKBAR-APPLET
> ================================================
[snip] 
> ================================================
> EOG
> ================================================
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320206
> => Crash when canceling slide show
> 
> 45 dups total.
> lucas: "probably not solvable with the current job management design".
> claudio: "caused by the jobs code that is pretty broken; already fixed
> in the 'eog-ng' branch. This branch is work in progress and needs more
> work in order to be merged to HEAD. It will hardly depend on the help we
> get with it."

It'd still be nice to fix this in 2.16.x in some way.

> ================================================
> EPIPHANY
> ================================================
[snip] 
> ================================================
> EVOLUTION
> ================================================
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270751
> => Handle task: and date: uris from command line

I don't think this is useful for 2.16.x (this is more of a new feature
than a critical bug), but it'd be really nice to have in 2.17.

> ================================================
> GNOME-TERMINAL
> ================================================
[snip] 
> ================================================
> GNOME-VFS
> ================================================
[snip] 
> ================================================
> GSTREAMER
> ================================================
[snip] 
> ================================================
> GTK+
> ================================================
[snip] 
> ================================================
> NAUTILUS
> ================================================
[snip] 
> ================================================
> PANGO
> ================================================
[snip] 

Vincent

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